Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2026, #12)

Phillip Wood <[email protected]> writes:

>>   The experimental 'git history' command has been taught a new 'squash'
>>   subcommand to fold a range of commits into a single commit, with any
>>   descendants replayed on top.
>> 
>>   Will merge to 'master'.
>>   cf. <[email protected]>
>>   cf. <[email protected]>
>>   source: <[email protected]>
>
> Oh, I'd missed this going into master. Has the implementation received 
> any serious review? I've seen messages from a couple of people trying it 
> out but I can't see anybody reading the code.

Thanks for stopping me.  I am happy to immediately revert the merge
of this topic into 'next'.

Perhaps I should re-evaluate the "What's Cooking" report and eject
other topics from 'next' as well.  There are indeed topics I did not
personally read, relying instead on impressions from busy exchanges
(including earlier iterations read by others X-<).

Are there other topics in 'next' that do not deserve to be there
yet?

I cannot, of course, afford to be the sole serious reviewer and
merge only those I have carefully read through, given that there are
only 24 hours in a day and I have other obligations.  So either our
quality criteria must suffer, like this episode showed us, or more
topics must be ignored.

> Having a quick look 
> through it assumes the presence of an UNINTERESTING commit means we have 
> a BOTTOM commit. It then assumes that UNINTERESTING commit means we 
> cannot reach any root commits. Both of those assumptions are false I 
> think.

Very true.

> ... I'll try and go through the patches and produce some fixups, 
> though that may not be until next week.

Thanks.